Homer Price

by Robert McCloskey

Young Homer Price finds himself involved with a nosey skunk, an avid string collector, and an overactive doughnut machine This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: School & Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0808537830
• ISBN13: 9780808537830
• Release Date: January 1943
• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Not as described

The book has a large portion of pages ripped. That would not be considered good condition to me. Otherwise it arrived timely and was fine.

The All-American Boy

Homer Price (1943) is the all-American boy of the 1940's. He lives two miles outside of Centerburg, Ohio, at the intersection of routes 56 and 56A. He helps his parents take care of their tourist court and in his free time, assembles radio sets. He keeps a pet skunk named "Aroma." Along the way he makes the acquaintance of a movie superhero, looks for a valuable necklace somewhere in the middle of a million doughnuts that came rolling out of his uncle's automatic doughnut machine, and helps Centerburg celebrate its 150th anniversary. While these "tales" are not perfect (all the black kids seem to be poor, for example), they are very much of their time and place and usually quite funny. HOMER PRICE has a sequel, CENTERBURG TALES (1951).

Crazy Centerburg, somewhere in the USA.

Homer Price A collection of heartwarming tales from a small town in the USA, as told by one of its younger residents. Shades of Bill Bryson, except that Homer Price predates him by a generation or more. Wonderful, quirky illustrations by the author himself, who has a an eye for detail similar to that of Norman Rockwell.

Homer Price Is a great book!!

The story is about a boy that lives in a town called Centerburg, where Route 56 meets 56A. There are six stories about Homer Price and the people in his town. My personal favorite story is the "The Doughnuts." It is about his Uncle Ulysses lunchroom and the gadgets and the outrageous inventions in there. One day something goes wrong. Some of the characters are the sheriff, the boys, Aggy, Uncle Ulysses, Uncle Telly, and Miss Terwiller. Some of the not so bright characters are the sheriff who talks backwards a lot. Uncle Telly, Miss Terwiller, and the sheriff all collect string. Also Uncle Ulysses owns a lunchroom that a lot of people go to. Homer Price's family owns a tourist camp where people can say for the night. The sheriff spends most of his time down at the barbershop, and plays checkers. Great book!!

An undiminished delight

This book should be at the top of your purchase list for every child in the 7 to 10 age group. Homer is an all-American boy in the all-American small town of Centerburg, somewhere in the all-American midwest, and in six hilarious escapades he keeps the kids (and grownup readers, too) enthralled. The stories are funny, engaging and original, and the illustrations, by the author, are priceless. Everyone will have their favorite chapter in this book; my own favorite was "The Doughnuts"; decades after I first read it as a child, it's still as fresh and funny as it was way back when. I bought this book for my son when he was seven and he was in stitches from the first page to the last. "Homer" is one of the all-time champs.

A Classic!

I'm now 65.I love this book. I remember when I was in second grade, and read it for the first time. Donut machine... Pets... Sure, it's "old fashioned." But it has humor, and a delightful, light spin.I love to give this to an 8-year old, or a kid who is just learning to read! The stories are full of a kid's view of a simple world. (The way the world should be to a kid.) Read it yourself. Fun, from start to finish. The illustrations are wonderful. I have to go and get another donut!